“Okay…my student debt is giving me nightmares…and by me I mean Daddy.”

@AaronMk  
That is lucky. You’ll feel better later. At least you have income. I had no income at college besides research projects.

@Wesley Foxx  

 
As someone whose doing school part-time while also working full-time nights: being on the bring of feeling like suicide is always e n j o y a b l e too.
 
Though I can probably pick something up through FAFSA. But that still leaves rent to take a massive bite outta my paycheck.

This is hilariously accurate.

@RainbowDash69  
Only things I did in school that I enjoyed besides math was working in CAD (I loved designing houses in the old floorplan simulator program we had that would project a model view of what you made and was pretty good with AutoCAD, Autodesk, etc.) and art, but since neither of those things really make for a career (and art I enjoy as a hobby and would hate if it became something I had to do for work instead of for fun) then yeah, engineers can make six figures and there’s lots of demand and etc.

@Keith Mowz  
aha yes, I’ve met so many math nerds who were “pressured” too. they get all A’s without trying… lucky :(
 
I don’t get it, accounting is way better for algebra fans!

@RainbowDash69  
I went back to school recently for accounting; I was originally pressured into going after an engineering degree because I was excellent at algebra and geometry. Unfortunately, turns out I’m not so great at calculus and ESPECIALLY awful at physics. Accounting is about the only field that still uses a good chunk of math besides teaching it or studying it.

@Keith Mowz  
you quit mechanical engineering but graduate in June? hm… yeah ME is super fun :\

@Silent Wing  
Congrats. You will spend 10 years trying to find a decent paying job without a degree, then judged by potential employers later when you neglected to get your degree after finishing school like an ambitious worker should.
 
Trust me, what you’re describing is basically the situation that I am actually in right now. Dropped out of college after less than a year when I realized I couldn’t do mechanical engineering for a living, started trying to save up money while looking for a career I’d actually enjoy, and have spent the last 9 years living with my parents, barely able to cover my expenses without rent/utilities (just barely can afford the car I need to be able to keep my minimum wage job along with food, gas, and insurance.) and despite graduating in June have not been able to find any sort of better job, internship, anything. Unless you’re a truck driver or want to go into insurance sales, at least ‘round here, you’re working retail unless you know a guy who knows a guy.

@Keith Mowz  
Perhaps you should take my approach and save up until you can put yourself through your education. I know for a fact that I will be saving money for close to 10 years before I go get my education, but I know I will keep enjoying my life during this time because I won’t need to drive myself into the ground trying to scramble my finances or work absolutely full-time to make things work correctly. A penny today is a dollar tomorrow. Save your strength for when the actual battle begins, and you will not need to exhaust yourself to overcome the obstacle.

@RainbowDash69  
Never saw a single campus job that was anything close to full time; The newsletter delivery position I had was only once a week and only paid $20.
 
Okay, let’s do the fuckin’ math, then. Let’s be super generous on every single point. You manage to score a part time job as a teenager that is paying dramatically more than the average at $7.50 an hour after taxes, get 24 hours a week, 50 weeks out of the year. You don’t spend a single cent of it on things like food, car payments and gas. You save $9k a year.
 
Congrats, hypothetical teenager, you almost made enough year-per-year to pay for the average public college’s tuition fees for local students… not including the cost of books, (~$1200 a year) food/rent (from the tuition source, ~12k a year) etc. Just keep that up for the next four years and you can graduate from your local public college with almost 2/3rds of your loans paid off.

@Keith Mowz  
you know, it is possible to work AND have a full course load. I can’t do both, but I know some who can. I’m referring to campus jobs that actually pay quite more than fast food.

@ExtremeSpeedSlowpoke  
>Save up  
 
Oh, I’m sorry, silly me, I should have been putting away all those tens of thousands of dollars I made during my part-time, minimum-wage, food service summer job.
 
At most, you have six years, presuming you start working as soon as you turn 16 (with pretty much no one but fast food chains hiring anyone under 18), working while simultaneously continuing to go through the graduating years of high school and your entire time in college, assuming you’re taking a full course load.

This is what happens when people dont save up

@Tragiclady  
no, you’re right. Obama has taken out a lot of troops recently though
 
not sure if the war on terror will ever be over

@RainbowDash69  
I thought we’ve been at war ever since the start of the “war on terror”, not even considering the huge parts of history I’m sure I’m forgetting D:

@soundtea  
I got FAFSA for the first two years but then neglected to re-file properly so paid the remainder out of the leftover funds rather than take out additional loans.

@detction  
no Hillary supporter actually thinks she’s a war mongerer, it’s so sad. nobody will see it coming, but we will be at war!

@Keith Mowz  
Too bad a lot have bullshit requirements, or they’re race locked and the like.
 
Didn’t get FAFSA at all due to some nebulous requirements.

@RainbowDash69  
Oh, and Hillary lets rapists go free and wants war with Russia.

@Jackarunda  
well Hillary loves government and totally thinks we all should hop aboard free education, which is why she’s winning so much :\
 
none of those examples matter to a liberal because liberals ignore outliers.

Yeah, we really should be more like Europe. Government-funded universities are clearly the way to go. I mean come on, people, it’s 2016 for goodness’ sake. And Europeans are the best.
 
^{whois derpibooru.org  
registrant country: US  
sponsoring registrar: dreamhost  
dreamhost: new dream network: founded in 1996 by college undergraduate students at Harvey Mudd College in the US
 
chrome: google  
google: founded in 1996 by PhD students in Stanford University in the US
 
windows 7 OS: windows: microsoft  
microsoft: founded in 1975 by two americans  
OSX: apple  
apple: founded in 1976 by three americans}

To be fair playing devil’s advocate, there ARE lots of scholarships and grants out there. (You know, provided you know what they are, qualify for them, they’re applicable to wherever and whatever it is you want to study, likewise assuming that you have in fact figured that out by that point in your life, etc. and that doesn’t mean you won’t still have hefty costs from stuff like books.)

Yep

>In the US, maybe.